I’m going to provide a review of betterhelp.com from the viewpoint as a pastor ….Your Moms House Podcast Betterhelp…as somebody who deals with online ministry and we have people that engage from us from all around the world i typically get asked do you recommend a therapist or a therapist or a psychologist and it can be tough you understand if you’re near a church among our churches it’s genuine simple since our church and a lot of churches have actually like a vetted referral list that we keep on hand to type of suggest in different focuses it’s generally individuals that we agree with theologically and we trust their practice but you get beyond your physical like geo footprint and it can be hard i’ve in the past use concentrate on the family referral list i typically agree with what they think and i trust their procedure doesn’t mean i i know everyone on the list is confirmed however it’s a quite solid list but if you get worldwide it ends up being the wild west so i have actually begun to take notice of online therapy over the last couple years i did a video way back where i did a online medical professional check out this resembled i don’t understand 5 eight years back therefore i have actually been wanting to experiment with betterhelp.com therefore there were some things i wished to process with a therapist
and as someone who’s gone through therapy in the past both individually and likewise marriage counseling i have actually experienced the advantage i’ve often discovered therapy and conference with a psychologist etc as kind of life hacking since it’s getting somebody outside of your fear your sphere of influence and them speaking into your life and they generally see things that maybe you have actually heard before however possibly you needed an outsider to verify so i’ve constantly taken pleasure in the financial investment both in time and cash in getting therapy so i wanted to experiment with better help so that i can advise and sort of see how the procedure went i will state as a disclaimer i am not an expert counselor psychologist i’m seminary trained um which usually simply implies really light therapy usually the method a pastor is trained without like a counseling focus is we’re kind of like the emts the emergency situation individuals that appear with the ambulance and we identify and after that we suggest individuals and we are constantly going hey here’s a spiritual area here’s are you perhaps you need to go process with somebody that’s a bit more of a specialist in that area so i’m not a professional this is simply my personal opinion is it practical my experience and so there’s 5 locations i’m going to take a look at i’m going to look at the rates which is a big factor the algorithm of connecting you to a real therapist the technology how did that go the actual suggestions of
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my session over a month and after that the faith component which is clearly really important to me because you don’t want to suggest somebody to something and after that you understand maybe they they affirm something or they say something that your church doesn’t believe in which could be the spectrum of course therefore first of all on rate it was 320 for a month 80 bucks a week that include a weekly video session and limitless messaging which you understand what does that indicate it simply implies a couple messages with your counselor but i was impressed that the price was not bad you know i have actually done therapy in the past and it can be really pricey especially if you’re getting somebody who is good at what they have actually done i have actually both done it when i remained in seminary i had to go through some counseling a part of my program and it was simply adequately priced done some other counseling and marriage counseling and i what stands apart to me on this was the marriage therapy we went to a quite respectable organization a location that was popular published the the couple with the released uh authors and it was 80 bucks with a pastoral discount so that just sort of leads you to believe what you understand the full rate is quite expensive and so uh 320 bucks is not bad particularly and we’ll talk about this on the tech side the support was excellent you understand in the past when i’ve done therapy in both group or you understand individually you’re typically not interacting with your trainer continually it’s usually just around your sessions however to construct a habit start digitally there’s something about more access to your counselor that i actually liked and my counselor was pretty good at signing in on me and just asking things throughout the week even when we were not satisfying so there was a process for you to get a discount rate if that was not um if it was excessive they asked your monetary circumstance so you can receive less i didn’t go through that process likewise talk to your insurance coverage service provider if you have it to learn if you qualify however the prices i felt especially for the um the competence of my therapist i was very impressed what i got for the 320 therefore um and then they give you different options when you cancel where you can kind of try it for an extra set of time if you wish to if you wish to continue on they do charge you month-to-month and so you need to pay for a month of ahead of time and so that makes sense but i i think it i was extremely satisfied by the price it’s still a great deal of money i understand for a great deal of individuals um you know somebody like me i don’t use counseling each week and even every year however i do i have found i enjoy the viewpoint
um every five years or two or if something’s going on that i can’t process especially because of some youth uh such things that occur in my youth i there’s constantly something i’m discovering myself but i’ve constantly enjoyed it so pricing pretty good second the algorithm of really advising they go through a whole procedure where they ask you a series of questions before you ever visited you know mail age what you’re trying to find to get out of therapy they ask them like health and have you been depressed and things like that how are your sleeping habits some general concerns that are all quite basic um i and i thought the questions were strong um ultimately they do get in we’ll speak about this in the face area they ask you like what your faith is and your
denomination and they were respectable about asking some faith associated concerns that i was really extremely impressed with i wasn’t expecting a lot on the faith area but i was impressed by how they engaged that part of who i am as an individual because that is necessary to me and crucial to a great deal of individuals um they practically took that it took anywhere but they say 24 to 48 hours to sort of designate you to a counselor and uh i got designated pretty quick i think it was within 24 hr got e-mail notified it stated here’s the individual i saw a picture a bio i might see their knowledge i could see other evaluations about them and then it was kind of like try try them out and i i and i could pick to have somebody else if i wanted to and even when you stop they’re excellent at like asking a lot of questions around you understand what you consider your accounts or how did that session did they appear i mean they’re they’re really trying to make sure everyone is solid and i could alter my therapist at any time there was no concern with changing um my counselor was excellent about that too like you understand was asking a great deal of questions which is an odd balance due to the fact that you want a therapist that’s difficult you but also um you know somebody that you like that you can trust so it’s a hard relationship i’ve been quite um benefit i have actually benefited from a great deal of great counseling so i believe i have not truly been paired up with somebody that i didn’t agree however i was impressed by the algorithm the concerns and how the entire experience worked next the innovation whatever happens through the website so it’s um it’s that you get notifications on text and e-mail and so forth but basically you satisfy and engage through their web portal so betterhelp.com you have an account and pretty much it begins a personal chat with the individual you’re counseling when you do alter counselor that information disappears a minimum of gain access to from your end and but for example you set up everything within the app you um you satisfy the video innovation it’s kind of like a google hangout that’s developed into the the actual website and the video was great um my my my therapist had the video on it worked really efficiently um the Your Moms House Podcast Betterhelp
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only thing that was type of weird was normally you can change your audio and video inputs um by choosing the different locations i could not find out how to do that as someone who has some nicer gear i generally like to check it’s utilizing the right mic input not a big deal but that’s more of a technical nerd type of element but i was impressed by how whatever worked you understand web-based things and not software-based things or like you understand uh software resting on your computer system sometimes isn’t as great you know zoom is downloaded on your computer versus google hangouts remains in in the cloud in some cases that could be hit or miss but i was really amazed by the entire quality and my my uh my therapist was older and he seemed to know how to run it all and it was really effective i was impressed by the engagement from him through messaging uh the important things is i would get emails that he had actually published a message however because of security factors that makes sense none of the message was in my email i needed to always click onto the website to see things i kind of wish i could open that up however i understand that possibly you do not want your private info that is taking place in between counselor in your inbox i likewise got text suggestions you know i had to decide in for that however like 20 minutes prior to my session i had the ability to schedule
whatever and you know easily include it to my calendar but overall the technology was extremely excellent you understand my therapist sent me some pdfs and things to process prior to our first meeting i filled it out turn it in i suggest it wasn’t the most high-tech experience but it worked effectively and so i was very impressed with the total innovation the next section is the actual vice my counselor was very was extremely knowledgeable and had a great deal of experience and they were excellent and i enjoyed it they it was a good balance Your Moms House Podcast Betterhelp